Arsenal Under Pressure? | Villa’s 11-Game Streak | Has Wirtz Arrived?
Sunday Supplement
Sky Sports
3.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We start with Arsenal’s hard-fought 2-1 victory over Brighton, sealed by a stunning David Raya save, that kept them top of the league. But are Arsenal beginning to feel the pressure?
The focus then shifts to The Ashes, where England finally claimed a Test win in Australia—but John believes it was a hollow victory played out on a dreadful pitch.
Next up is Aston Villa’s superb run of eleven consecutive wins. A 2–1 victory at Stamford Bridge has moved them to within three points of league leaders Arsenal—but with Unai Emery’s side consistently outperforming their xG, can they keep this run going?
Finally, we turn to Liverpool’s 2–1 victory over bottom-of-the-table Wolves. With his first league goal of the season, we ask: has the real Florian Wirtz arrived in the Premier League?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning to you. And if it's not too late to say it, Merry Christmas from all of us here at Sunday supplements. |
| 0:08.9 | We'll be digesting, analysing and debating the sports stories inside the Sunday papers. |
| 0:15.2 | And joining us to discuss it all, a Mark Ogden, senior writer at ESPN, John Cross, Chief Football writer for the Mirror, and the Telegraph's Chief Football correspondent, Jason Bert. Great to have you all here. Okay, let's get to it then. The title race dominates a lot of the back pages in the Sunday papers. The sun on Sunday, first de-work is the headline |
| 0:40.1 | after Arsenal's victory over Brighton at the Emirates. John, it is a win, albeit a cagey one. |
| 0:49.1 | Are they convincing you more or not so much that they're going to end that 22-year weight? |
| 0:56.1 | Cagey or nervy, Darmesh? I would say nervy, probably. |
| 0:59.8 | I do like that back page because it sort of kind of focuses on Martin Odegaard there, |
| 1:05.2 | who opening up the scoring, didn't he, with that wonderful goal. |
| 1:07.5 | And I do think Odegaard, I think it's a terrific captain, really respected by |
| 1:11.7 | his peers and teammates and the sort of leader for Artaetta on the pitch. So I think it was good |
| 1:16.4 | that he gets his back his form. But also missing a few players, two-nil, they're cruising, and you |
| 1:22.4 | think, oh, this is a good response to earlier in the day. Man City, obviously, a really impressive, hard-fought, |
| 1:29.3 | ground out win at, sort of Nottingham Forest. And Arsenal have to respond. And you think, wow, |
| 1:35.3 | OK, they're in, they're in the zone here. They're going to do it and they're going to do it comfortably. |
| 1:39.3 | And at 2-0, they were putting on the pressure for 3-0, and then suddenly they concede, |
| 1:44.6 | and then all of a sudden you're feeling the nerves |
| 1:47.4 | and the tension amongst Arsenal fans. |
| 1:49.4 | You can ensure you could feel it within the ground. |
| 1:52.3 | That's what it feels like at the moment. |
| 1:54.4 | And they've gone from a place, I think, in sort of October, |
| 1:57.5 | November, when they were winning games for fun |
| 1:59.7 | and playing ever so well and free flowing football and relaxing |
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